Dino 0.3 Release - Dino. Communicating happiness.
dino.im
A privacy-friendly messaging app for the desktop. It uses the XMPP protocol and provides a clean UI with modern features.
  • @beansniffer@lemmy.ml
    1•2 years ago

    Does anybody have experience with Dino? What do you guys think?

    How often do people use XMPP with talking with regular people who don’t know what XMPP even is?

    How does XMPP compare to Matrix from a regular end user perspective?

    • poVoq
      1•2 years ago

      I like Dino, but in the end I usually use Gajim because it is a bit more fully featured. However, now that Dino supports video-chat that might change.

      If you want to use XMPP with friend and family then Movim or Snikket are probably the easiest options.

      I mostly use it to chat with gaming buddies and also to access IRC channels (with Biboumi).

      But my plan is to add a Telegram gateway to my XMPP server and slowly get my family to switch over as well.

    • @onlooker@lemmy.ml
      0•2 years ago

      I have Dino installed on my PC, I like it. I wanted to install a XMPP client with OMEMO support and it was a toss-up between Dino and Gajim. Dino won out in the end, because it had fewer dependencies. One thing it doesn’t do well (yet?) is chat history. If you’re chatting on another app, like Conversations, and Dino isn’t open at the time, you won’t see the chat history when you open Dino up again.

      As for the other questions: I guess never. All of my chat buddies are techies and know what XMPP is. No idea what an average user would think.

      I would say that depends on what client you’re using, rather than the chat protocol itself. You have intuitive and less-than-intuitive apps for both protocols.

      • @toneverends@lemmy.ml
        0•2 years ago

        One thing it doesn’t do well (yet?) is chat history. If you’re chatting on another app, like Conversations, and Dino isn’t open at the time, you won’t see the chat history when you open Dino up again.

        I’ve been using dino and conversations for the past couple of years, with the conversations.im server, and it seems fine with syncing recent history, even if I haven’t had my PC on for a week. Using OMEMO.

        • @onlooker@lemmy.ml
          0•2 years ago

          Huh. I guess I screwed something up on my end then. I had just assumed that this is something they’ve yet to implement. I’ll take another look when I get home. Thanks for the heads up.